Different drummers
Subtitle: rhythm and race in the Americas
By: Martin Munro.
Series: Music of the African diaspora -- 14
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780520262829; 9780520262836
Subjects: Brown, James, -- 1933-2006 -- Criticism and interpretation; Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- Music -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism
Description: Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. This work traces the central, and contested, role of music in shaping identities, politics, social history, and artistic expression. Starting with enslaved African musicians, the author takes us to Haiti, Trinidad, the French Caribbean, and to the civil rights era in the United States. Along the way, he highlights such figures as Toussaint Louverture, Jacques Roumain, Jean Price Mars, The Mighty Sparrow, Aime Cesaire, Edouard Glissant, Joseph Zobel, Daniel Maximin, James Brown, and Amiri Baraka. Bringing to light new connections among black cultures, he shows how rhythm has been both a persistent marker of race as well as a dynamic force for change at virtually every major turning point in black New World history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beating back darkness : rhythm and revolution in Haiti; title: Rhythm, creolization, and conflict in Trinidad; title: Rhythm, music, and literature in the French Caribbean; title: James Brown, rhythm, and black power.